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Wordsworth Trust season continues with leading light of poetry

10:10am Saturday 11th May 2013

W N HERBERT and Hannah Lowe share the stage in the next reading event in the Wordsworth Trust poetry series on May 21.

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Top poet Roger McGough plays Keswick's Theatre by the Lake

6:30pm Monday 15th April 2013

Carol Ann Duffy calls him ‘the patron saint of poetry.’

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Horse shock for Inspector Montalbano in latest Andrea Camilleri mystery

11:14am Friday 22nd March 2013

The Track Of Sand: Andrea Camilleri (Picador, £7.99).

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A darker side of life couldn’t break Blackburn-born author Josephine Cox

4:11pm Monday 25th February 2013

SHE hates her books being branded ‘romantic fiction’ — and there’s a much darker side to the novels of best-selling East Lancashire-born author Josephine Cox.

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Plenty of poetry and prose in Wordsworth Trust festival line-up

1:50pm Thursday 10th January 2013

THE Wordsworth Trust’s Arts and Book Festival weekend features a cornucopia of workshops, talks, entertainment and readings.

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When Ziggy rocked the world

12:56pm Monday 31st December 2012

When Ziggy Played Guitar: David Bowie And Four Minutes That Shook The World by Dylan Jones (Preface, £20)

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Keith Richardson’s The Greta flows as beautifully as the river itself

11:00am Saturday 15th December 2012

SOMETIMES a real gem of a book drops on to the arts desk.

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Litfest blazes another literary trail around Lancaster

6:20pm Monday 15th October 2012

JOHN Hegley is one of the leading wordsmiths in the Litfest 2012 line-up.

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Excellent prequel to The Godfather

4:18pm Monday 6th August 2012

The Family Corleone by Ed Falco (William Heienmann, £18.99)

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Bestselling author John Connolly visits Kendal Library

1:54pm Thursday 2nd August 2012

CREATOR of the well-known Charlie Parker thrillers is heading to Kendal. Bestselling author John Connolly visits Kendal Library on September 15 (7pm), to talk about his new novel, the Wrath of Angels.

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Taffy Thomas spins a few yarns at Waterstones

12:00pm Thursday 26th July 2012

TAFFY Thomas pops into Waterstones at Kendal on Saturday (July 28) to sign copies of his newly released Cumbrian Folk Tales book. Grasmere-based Taffy - who has a repertoire of more than 300 stories - travels far and wide spinning his yarns and will tell a few at the town centre bookstore at 11am and 3pm. Taffy has an MBE for services to storytelling and charity and, in 2009, was given the honorary position of first national laureate for storytelling.

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Author Sarah Hall lands Edge Hill University prize

6:00pm Monday 23rd July 2012

CUMBRIAN author Sarah Hall is in the honours once again with her latest literary work.

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New Wordsworth Trust exhibition gives fresh take on the 'visitor' experience

8:30am Saturday 19th May 2012

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Dorothy Wordsworth Festival of Women’s Poetry features prize-winning line-up

8:20am Saturday 7th April 2012

THE second Dorothy Wordsworth Festival of Women’s Poetry takes place at Grasmere, from April 20-22, as part of the Wordsworth Trust’s contemporary poetry programme.

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Great guide to cooking Sunday lunches

12:54pm Wednesday 14th March 2012

Mary Berry's Family Sunday Lunches by Mary Berry (Headline, £20)

A misunderstood intellectual - welcome to the world of Adrian Mole

9:06am Thursday 8th March 2012

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (Penguin) Thirty years after they were first released the 'Secret Diaries' books by Sue Townsned, jusr re-issued by Penguin, still raise a smile and the occasional laugh out loud.

Bleak tale but great writing from Michael Dibdin

8:47am Thursday 8th March 2012

Ratking by Michael Dibdin (Faber and Faber, £7.99).

Epic time travel novel takes you back to the 50s and 60s

8:43am Monday 6th February 2012

11.22.63 by Stephen King (Hodder and Stoughton) The date in the title of Stephen King’s latest blockbuster relates to the date that President Jack Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

Stephen King

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Portrait of a Hollywood icon

10:07am Tuesday 20th December 2011

Robert Redford, The Biography by Michael Feeney Callan (Simon and Schuster.

Nick Hennessey's magical mix of spoken word, song and music

1:00pm Sunday 11th December 2011

IT WAS 15 years ago while Nick Hennessey was studying for a PhD in Cultural Geography, exploring the relationship between landscape, communities and myth, that he was hooked by the magic of storytelling. Since, the bearded bard has been following his passion for the role of story in our modern lives, evolving an enthralling style of performance that switches between spoken word, song and music.

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